... Abstract Background: Advances in dialysis medicine have enabled end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients to live longer. ESRD patients and their family members experience the illness in everyday life, and patients are required to manage their own disease to live longer. Psychological...

... Abstract Renal prognostic factors of chronic kidney disease are important concerns for patients. Kidney biopsy can be used to evaluate not only the activity of the original disease but also various risk factors related to the lifestyle of patients. Considering that lifestyle-related factors...

... Abstract Continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) has many potential indications that extend beyond the traditional removal of uremic waste products. Many of these stem from the capacity of CRRT to remove middle-sized molecules and its suitability for haemodynamically unstable patients...

... Abstract The provision of continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) to pediatric patients presents numerous clinical and technical challenges that have been addressed over the past 40 years. Children provide an informative population for acute kidney injury and CRRT study, as pediatric...

... output, a decrease in renal blood flow (RBF) could contribute to the development of AKI. In resuscitated septic patients with a hyperdynamic circulatory state, RBF is unchanged or increased. However, in resuscitated septic patients, sepsis-induced AKI can occur in the setting of renal hyperemia...

... (and intensity) speaks to the need for a re-evaluation of renal support. Continuous therapies have brought greater control of urea, volume, acid/base status and enhanced hemodynamic stability over the traditional intermittent approaches. However, the incremental efficiency achieved by intense dialysis has...

... Abstract Chronic deteriorating renal function and renal fibrosis are common features in progressiverenal diseases. Renal fibrosis may determine the degree of impairment of renal function and predictlong-term prognosis. Advances in cell biology have provided a new understanding...

...; this is to a large extent related to the induction of severe acute kidneyinjury, for which dialysis is a life-saving therapy. The practical means (both hardware andpersonnel) to do so are, however, often lacking in disaster conditions. The Renal DisasterRelief Task Force (RDRTF) offered support for renal problems...